Cohasset show features pieces from across the artistic spectrum

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Aug 2, 2014 at 12:01 AM

The Blue Ribbon Members' Show at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset runs through the end of this month. “I just like that there's such a variety,” said Sarah Hannan, executive director of the art center “You can have a child's drawing hanging next to a professional artist's painting.”

Cody Shepard The Enterprise @cshepard_ENT

COHASSET -- The South Shore Art Center’s Blue Ribbon Members’ Show features more than just paintings. Interactive sculptures, wood art and multimedia works are among the pieces on display.

The show began July 18 and will continue through Aug. 31 in the art center’s Bancroft and Dillon galleries.

Sarah Hannan, executive director of the art center, said the show is the center’s most popular.

“There are so many people involved, so many artists,” she said. “The artists come in and bring their families to show off their work. It’s very popular.”

Four pieces were given blue ribbons this year: two photos, a multimedia piece and a work done in pastels.

The winning artists, David Bohl, Sue Gallagher, Joe Norris and Laurinda O’Connor, each received $100 in addition to the ribbon.

The judging was done by Linda Shoemaker, executive director at the Arlington Center for the Arts.

Hannan said it’s unusual that two of the blue ribbons went to photographs, but Shoemaker thought those two photos “were both so different.”

Each South Shore Art Center member can submit one piece for the show.

Hannan said the art comes from all over Massachusetts and even from other states in some cases. One of the pieces is an encaustic painting by a Rhode Island gallery artist.

Two of the more unique pieces are a sculpture made of business cards and a kinetic sculpture of an engine called “I Could’a Had a V8,” which was made of V8 juice cans.

“I just like that there’s such a variety,” Hannan said. “You can have a child’s drawing hanging next to a professional artist’s painting.”

Many of the exhibited pieces are for sale. Sixty percent of the price paid for a piece goes to the artist; the art center gets the rest.

The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There is a suggested $5 donation.